After nearly three months living in the Kredtrakarn Center for Protection and Vocational Training in Thailand’s Nonthaburi Province, ten Vietnamese surrogate mothers have returned home.

This information was confirmed by Pham Minh Tuan, first secretary in charge of citizenship affairs of the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand. He said these women have returned home by air with Thai anti-human trafficking forces.

Of the ten Vietnamese women who returned home, three are pregnant for 5-6 months.

Some women cannot return home right now because they have just had baby. They will return to Vietnam in late May, with their children. The babies’ natural parents must go to Vietnam to perform formalities to take their babies under Vietnamese law.

On February 23, Thai authorities rounded up three houses in Bangkok suburbs, rescuing 15 Vietnamese surrogate mothers. Of them, there are eight women from the southern province of Bac Lieu.

These women were brought from Vietnam to Thailand by a Taiwanese firm to be surrogate mothers at the price of $5,000 a baby.

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